Scouting For History - Reverent Traditional Cache
Scouting For History - Reverent
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This is the Wichita county cache in a twelve part series of caches highlighting historical locations in the twelve counties of the Boy Scout’s North West Texas Council. Each cache is themed with a point in the Scout Law. This was done as my Eagle Project.
This church is all that is left of the legacy of Herman Specht. An immigrant from Germany in 1780, in 1884 he married Clara M. Vogel Lange (1853-1912), a wealthy widow. Adding to earlier property holdings in Galveston, he began buying extensive tracts of land in northern Wichita County, which eventually totaled 21,000 acres. In 1886 he platted the town of Clara which he named for his wife. North of the church site, he had a large experimental nursery for unusual plants. The 1891 drought wiped out the nursery and Specht's crops. The 1900 Galveston storm destroyed the remainder of their vast holdings. It is interesting that we can’t be sure where/if we will make a mark on history and even if we do, not always how we thought we would. There is a nice view of the church from here
And the FTF goes to GMartinTX
Additional Hints
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Shmml srapr cvcr arne W96
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